conscient
adjEtymology Borrowed from Latin consciens, conscientis, present participle.
1
Obsolete conscious; aware
- As we see in Augustus Cæsar, (who was rather diverse from his uncle, than inferior in virtue,) how when he died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscient to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552:
- Derived terms
- conscientious, conscientize, unconscient
- Related terms
- sentient